Crime Surge is a Feature of the Democrats' Policies

It is not an unintended consequence. NYC councilman admits he's 'running out of reasons to tell people to stay' amid crime surge

“The rise in crime is not really a bug in this system; it’s a feature. For eighteen months, New York’s woke Democrats have systematically eroded criminal justice and empowered criminals,” [New York City Council member Joe Borelli, a Republican,] told host Tucker Carlson.

Who even knew that there were any Republicans left in NYC?

“There was bail reform, it was defunding the police, it was ending qualified immunity. It was criminalizing police actions. So it’s tough to imagine any other outcome that they could possibly have foresaw other than a spike in crime,” he added. [emphasis in original]

He goes on to discuss the increases in crime: the 130% increase in shootings in June of last year over the prior year, the increase in murders and the rise in sexual assault, etc.

What’s notable is that you rarely hear Democrat politicians, mainstream media “journalists,” sports stars and Hollywood actors and actresses complain about these increased murders and sexual assaults. There’s a political reason for this, according to Borelli.

“You don’t hear about it, and you won’t, because the solution to this is proactive policing. It’s a type of policing that most of the celebrities, most reform activists, and people on the street protesting around New York City, it’s that type of policing which they specifically do not want,” he said.

Now you would have to be living under a rock not to have seen things about the Ma'Khia Bryant Shooting. But what you may not have seen is the Bree Newsome take on the issue. BLM co-founder ‘frightened’ cop stopped stabbing: ‘Teens have been having fights involving knives for eons’

And according to Ms. Newsome you should just let them stab one another.

The media and activists immediately started claiming that Bryant was unarmed and just an innocent, sweet girl. But the video shows exactly what she was doing. Newsome unbelievably seized on the tragic incident to posit that teenage knife fights were normal and that the police had no business interfering.

But then chaos and violence normalized is exactly the goal of BLM and Antifa and all the eliminate police activists want.

Regarding crime in the Democrat “utopia” of New York City, this week alone a corpse was found stuffed in a bag in Manhattan, a woman was executed in broad daylight in Brooklyn and a career criminal who’d been released without bail earlier this month on an attempted murder charge was re-arrested for dragging an NYPD officer with his vehicle.

Dangerous suspects being released without bail and then going on to commit additional crimes has become the norm in NYC thanks specifically to the “woke” Democrats mentioned by Borelli.

‘You can’t stop me!’ Bragging NYC subway thief, with 138 arrests, thanks Dems for new bail reform law https://t.co/zYWlcIkWDz
— Conservative News (@BIZPACReview) February 17, 2020

I suppose that the Dems think if they tear it all down, they can rebuild it how they see fit. I doubt it will work that way. I am reminded, as I always am, about Hobbes' description of the state of war, which exists in the breakdown of law and order.

no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time, no arts, no letters, no society, and, which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

I think that could describe the state of some of our large cities.